All news on the topic: Tory Government

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Tories accused of having 'blood on hands' after six migrants die in Channel
Today's Channel tragedy, which claimed the lives of at least six people, comes just hours after the plan to house asylum seekers on a barge turned into a fiasco
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'Lee Anderson uses gutter politics of a Government deflecting from its failure'
The only subject he is qualified to lecture anyone about is how to be a hypocrite - Anderson collects £100,000 from a second job on top of his £87,000 salary as an MP
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'Unprecedented spending cuts by Tories have squeezed the life out of NHS'
The record 7.5 million people waiting for ops didn’t just materialise overnight - the number rose steadily before shooting up during Covid
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Tories blasted over detective shortages as 90% crimes go unsolved
Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has lashed out at the Government's 'abysmal' record on law and order, describing the charge rate as a 'national scandal'
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'For the sake of grieving mothers like James Bulger's TikTok must act quickly'
The terrible abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool 30 years ago shocked the nation – and his mother Denise must be spared any further agony
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Keir Starmer defies calls for U-turns on free school meals and benefits
Labour officials saw off attempts to get the party to scrap the Tory two-child benefit cap, along with calls to widen free school meals provision, as the leadership keeps a tight grip on spending plans
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'Closing railway ticket offices will hit vulnerable and elderly'
The private train companies and Tory Government will have to go back to the drawing board if the Labour mayors, marshalled by Greater Manchester’s Andy Burnham, win their legal attempt to derail a consultation process dismissed as “shambolic”
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'Failing Tories are still facing the same questions they were back in 1996'
Writing in the Sunday Mirror, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said it's shameful that 27 years after John Prescott asked why families are facing repossession, negative equity and homelessness, she had to ask the same question
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'Fortune favours the bold - Starmer knows he won't be forgiven if Labour lose'
Haunted by ghosts of Neil Kinnock in 1992 and Ed Miliband in 2010, defeat snatched from the jaws of victory is the nightmare of increasingly optimistic Labour Shadow Cabinet Ministers
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More than 700,000 households miss out on £300m worth of energy bill support
Out of 900,000 households in places such as park homes and houseboats that were eligible for a one-off £400 payment from the government, only 200,000 applied and 60,000 were rejected
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Labour's classroom revolution to smash 'class ceiling' holding children back
In a highly personal speech, Mr Starmer told how seeing his toolmaker dad feel 'looked down upon' and 'disrespected' because of his job had pushed him to end the academic/vocational divide
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Pupils to study art or sport to 16 and speaking skills in Labour school shake-up
Keir Starmer promised that a Labour Government would usher in major reforms to the school curriculum in a speech where he vowed to 'shatter the class ceiling' holding ordinary kids back
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Draconian Tory plan to send migrants to Rwanda will cost £169,000 per person
A long-awaited economic assessment of the Illegal Migration Bill revealed it would cost £63,000 more to hand asylum seekers a one-way ticket to the African country than to keep them in the UK
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'Invading Ukraine is deservedly backfiring on the humiliated Putin'
'Invading Ukraine is deservedly backfiring badly on humiliated Putin, who relied on former ally Prigozhin’s hired dogs of war to do much of the fighting in occupied territory'
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'George Osborne is either utterly deluded or a shameless knave'
Rejecting obvious evidence that his spending cuts weakened Britain’s health and social care services before Covid is the self-denial of an arrogant Conservative
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Letters: 'Raising interest rates just helps the banks - not the ordinary person'
Mirror reader Shirley Broadbent is worried about the state of our economy - do you share her concerns?
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Letters: 'Suella Braverman is a liability to the government'
Mirror reader Andrew Milroy says Suella Braverman consistently makes poor judgements and is a liability to the government. But do YOU agree?
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Tories plan to force ID checks for postal and proxy votes in future elections
Despite calls to suspend the controversial in-person voter ID - after thousands were turned away at the May election - the Government has announced new measures
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'Plunging living standards number one issue for millions abandoned by Tories'
We want to see many solutions offered, such as supermarkets guaranteeing cheaper own-brand products in every shop
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Supermarket bosses hauled into No10 as inflation rips through family budgets
The crunch showdown comes as the Lib Dems revealed figures showing how customers are still being hit in the wallet even when production costs fall
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'Humiliated' youngsters with ID stopped from casting ballots in Tory crackdown
Some young voters were stopped from taking part in last week's local elections because their proof-of-age cards were not accepted, it is claimed
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Tories admit sending out leaflet wrongly telling voters they don't need photo ID
Hundreds of campaign leaflets including the incorrect advice were sent in "error" to residents ahead of next week's local elections. New Voter ID rules have been introduced
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How to turn phone alerts off ahead of Government's emergency message
Not every Brit with a compatible device will be happy to receive the government's test of the emergency alert system on Sunday. Here's how to turn phone alerts off ahead of Government's emergency message
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Rishi Sunak accused of 'eco own goal' as plans for £230m 'green town' scrapped
The government has scrapped plans for the UK's largest net zero town, which would have been located around five miles outside of Oxford, with the scrapping of the plans condemned as an eco own goal
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'Responsibility of ambulance crisis is with Government that failed to boost NHS'
The average time for an ambulance to arrive for someone suffering stroke, severe burns or chest pain is now 93 minutes. This is five times longer than the target of 18 minutes